From ef6f8ea91bcd90d52a9c1661975df3653e74bf84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Cosgrove Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:29:55 +0000 Subject: Mention that cdboot won't find boot.conf if you create the CD with 8.3-style filenames. Issue raised by Mikolaj Kucharski, eth0 (at) o2.pl. Jointly written with, and ok, jmc@. --- sys/arch/i386/stand/cdboot/cdboot.8 | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'sys/arch/i386/stand/cdboot') diff --git a/sys/arch/i386/stand/cdboot/cdboot.8 b/sys/arch/i386/stand/cdboot/cdboot.8 index 479a4e04289..e265dddc4c5 100644 --- a/sys/arch/i386/stand/cdboot/cdboot.8 +++ b/sys/arch/i386/stand/cdboot/cdboot.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: cdboot.8,v 1.4 2005/11/27 13:12:00 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: cdboot.8,v 1.5 2006/10/31 11:29:54 tom Exp $ .\" Copyright (c) 2004 Tom Cosgrove .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Matthias Drochner .\" Copyright (c) 1999 Doug White @@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ Boot the install kernel: .Dl boot> bsd.rd .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr boot 8 , -.Xr boot_i386 8 +.Xr boot_i386 8 , +.Xr mkhybrid 8 .Rs .%T "El Torito" Bootable CD-ROM Format Specification .%N Version 1.0 @@ -99,6 +100,19 @@ The .Nm program first appeared in .Ox 3.6 . +.Sh CAVEATS +By default, many CD creation programs restrict filenames to +the MS-DOS 8.3 format. +Unless this is changed, +.Nm +will not be able to read its +.Xr boot.conf 5 +file. +For example, with +.Xr mkhybrid 8 +the +.Fl l +option should be specified. .Sh BUGS The .Ic ls -- cgit v1.2.3